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Grammar Challenge

Zero conditional Practice activities

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Zero conditional Exercise 1: Match the beginnings of the sentences to the correct endings.

1. If you mix black and white, a. it floats.

2. If you don't water flowers, b. it turns to ice.

3. When you heat ice, c. you get dough.

4. If you freeze water, d. it melts.

5. When you tickle her, e. they die.

6. If you mix flour and water, f. she laughs.

7. When the teacher gives us homework, g. you get grey.

8. If you pour oil on water,

h. she always does it.

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Zero conditional Exercise 2:

Choose the best answer from the options below to complete the sentences.

Chocolate (1)__________ when you heat it.

She hardly ever drinks alcohol so (2) __________ just one glass of wine,

she gets drunk.

(3)__________ coffee, I always (4)__________ a cup.

She's a really good friend, (5)__________ a problem, I (6)__________to

her and she helps me solve it.

If (7)__________ rainy and sunny at the same time, you sometimes

(8)__________ a rainbow.

Options

(1) melting / melts / melt

(2) if she drink / if she drank / if she drinks

(3) When I smells / When I smell / When smell

(4) wanting / want / wants

(5) if I have / if I will have / if I had

(6) talk / will talk / have talked

(7) it / is / it's

(8) see / saw / seen

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Zero conditional Answers Exercise 1: Match the beginnings of the sentences to the correct endings.

1. If you mix black and white, g. you get grey.

2. If you don't water flowers, e. they die.

3. When you heat ice, d. it melts.

4. If you freeze water, b. it turns to ice.

5. When you tickle her, f. she laughs.

6. If you mix flour and water, c. you get dough.

7. When the teacher gives us homework, h. she always does it.

8. If you pour oil on water,

a. it floats.

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Zero conditional Answers Exercise 2: If you heat chocolate, it (1)__________ .

She hardly ever drinks alcohol so (2) __________ just one glass of wine,

she gets drunk.

(3)__________ coffee, I always (4)__________ a cup.

She's a really good friend. (5)__________ a problem, I (6)__________to

her and she helps me solve it.

If (7)__________ rainy and sunny at the same time, you sometimes

(8)__________ a rainbow.

Correct answers

(1) melts

(2) if she drinks

(3) When I smell

(4) want

(5) if I have

(6) talk

(7) it's

(8) see